TVA in Tennessee

Fiscal Year 2011 (October 2010 – September 2011)

Energy Sales

In fiscal year 2011, TVA sold more than 95 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to 61 municipal and 22 cooperatively owned utilities that distribute TVA power in Tennessee.
Tennessee is home to 22 directly served customers of TVA that purchased almost 7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
TVA power revenues in Tennessee in fiscal year 2011 totaled more than $7.3 billion, or about 63 percent of all TVA operating revenue.
The distributors provided about 42 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to more than 2.6 million Tennessee households in 2011.
Distributor sales to more than 443,000 commercial and industrial customers totaled 48.2 billion kilowatthours. In addition, distributors in Tennessee sold more than 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours to outdoor lighting customers.

Service Area

TVA serves virtually all of the 95 counties in Tennessee.
The TVA service area in Tennessee covers 42,038 square miles, about 49 percent of TVA’s territory and 99.7 percent of Tennessee. This includes an electricity service area of 41,420 square miles and a watershed management area of 22,514 square miles.

Power Generation and Transmission

In Tennessee, TVA operates 19 hydroelectric dams, seven coal-fired power plants, two nuclear power plants, six combustion turbine sites and a pumped-storage plant, with a combined generating capacity of more than 19,655 megawatts.
- Coal-fired plants: Allen, Bull Run, Cumberland, Gallatin, John Sevier, Johnsonville and Kingston.
- Natural gas-fueled combustion turbines: Allen, Brownsville, Gallatin, Gleason, Johnsonville and Lagoon Creek.
- Nuclear plants: Sequoyah and Watts Bar.
- Hydroelectric plants: Boone, Cherokee, Chickamauga, Douglas, Fort Loudoun, Fort Patrick Henry, Great Falls, Melton Hill, Nickajack, Norris, Ocoee 1, Ocoee 2, Ocoee 3, Pickwick Landing, South Holston, Tims Ford, Watauga, Watts Bar and Wilbur.
- Pumped-storage hydroelectric plant: Raccoon Mountain.
TVA owns or maintains 262 substations and switchyards and nearly 9,369 miles of transmission line in Tennessee.
TVA operates nine solar facilities in Tennessee: a 27-kilowatt facility at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville; two 18-kilowatt facilities at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge; a 15-kilowatt facility at Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville; a 9-kilowatt facility at Cocke County High School in Newport; a 15-kilowatt facility at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge; a 7-kilowatt facility at Morgan County Vocational School in Wartburg; an 85-kilowatt facility at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, and a 26-kilowatt facility at the Bridges Center in Memphis.
An 18-turbine wind farm on Buffalo Mountain, near Oliver Springs, provided 24 megawatts of capacity in 2011.
Methane gas – a source of renewable energy – from the city of Memphis’ wastewater treatment plant is burned with coal at TVA’s Allen Fossil Plant, adding 8 megawatts of generating capacity.
TVA is completing construction of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 near Spring City. This second reactor at Watts Bar will add more than 1,100 megawatts of nuclear generating capacity when it comes online. It will be the nation’s first new nuclear generation of the 21st century.

Land and Water Stewardship

TVA manages 33 reservoirs in Tennessee: Boone, Cherokee, Chickamauga, Douglas, Fort Loudoun, Fort Patrick Henry, Great Falls, Melton Hill, Nickajack, Nolichucky, Normandy, Norris, Ocoee 1, Ocoee 2, Ocoee 3, Raccoon Mountain, South Holston, Tellico, Tims Ford, Watauga, Watts Bar and Wilbur along with eight small reservoirs in the Beech River watershed in West Tennessee and portions of Kentucky, Pickwick and Guntersville reservoirs. The reservoirs have a combined surface area of about 300,000 acres and about 7,000 miles of shoreline.
TVA manages recreational, natural and cultural resources on more than 170,000 acres of public land around these reservoirs and partners with local and regional stakeholders to improve water quality, shoreline conditions and biodiversity.
The TVA visitor center at Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant welcomes almost 12,000 visitors every year and is TVA’s largest hydroelectric facility. The Norris Dam Visitor Center overlooking the powerhouse, Norris Reservoir and a marina received 7,219 visitors during the 7 months it was open.
Tennessee residents enjoy camping, fishing, boating, swimming and other recreational opportunities provided by the reservoirs, as well as economic benefits of recreation and tourism. TVA’s nine campgrounds in Tennessee recorded 59,327 overnight stays in 2011. TVA also maintains 45 day-use recreation areas and 47 stream access sites.

River Management

TVA maintains the structural, seismic and hydrologic integrity of 19 hydroelectric dams, 11 non-power dams, two small overflow detention dams at John Sevier Fossil Plant on the Holston River and Doakes Creek on Norris Reservoir, and one pumped-storage hydroelectric plant near Chattanooga.
TVA owns seven locks in Tennessee (six main locks and one auxiliary lock), serving about 110 Tennessee ports and terminals. About 22 million tons of cargo move through the facilities annually.
TVA dams and reservoirs in Tennessee are operated in conjunction with others in the TVA system to store flood water for controlled release. At Chattanooga, which is prone to flooding because of its location just above where the Tennessee River flows through the narrow passes of the Cumberland Mountains, operation of TVA’s flood-control system has helped prevent about $4.9 billion in flood damage since its construction.
About 101 municipalities, 26 industries and three mining companies in Tennessee draw water from the Tennessee River system. Water also is drawn for power plant cooling and irrigation.
TVA schedules releases of water from the Apalachia, Norris, Ocoee 1, Ocoee 2, Ocoee 3, Tims Ford and Watauga/Wilbur dams to support whitewater sports and tailwater fishing in Tennessee.

Other TVA Operations

TVA's recently built Lagoon Creek Combined Cycle Plant, which occupies 181 acres in the midst of Tennessee farm country, is expected to help TVA meet the rapidly growing summertime peak demands for power with its generating capacity of 550 megawatts.
Tennessee and Alabama are among the six most-improved states in energy efficiency in the past year, according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Tennessee moves up five places to No. 30 on the ACEEE's 2011 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.
Committed to cleaning up the area affected by the Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill, protecting public health and safety, and making the area as good as or better than it was before, and TVA transported the last of 414 train shipments of recovered coal ash - some 40,000 rail cars in all - to the EPA-approved Arrowhead Landfill in Perry County, AL
Tennessee households had about 58 million kilowatt-hours of energy efficiency savings resulting from nearly 14,000 In-Home Energy Evaluations by TVA-certified evaluators and approximately 26,500 do-it-yourself home energy evaluations taken online or by paper survey.

Personnel

There are 8,599 TVA employees based in Tennessee.
Tennessee is home to nearly 13,880 TVA retirees and their families.

Tax Equivalent Payments

TVA paid $321.5 million in lieu of taxes in Tennessee in 2011, based on power sales and power property values in the state.

Economic Development

TVA works with power distributors, directly served customers, and regional, state and community organizations to create economic development opportunities for the TVA region. Economic development focuses on attracting and retaining jobs, increasing capital investment, and helping communities prepare for growth. During fiscal year 2011, 26,400 jobs were created or retained in Tennessee and more than $3 billion was invested.

TVA Suppliers

In fiscal year 2011, TVA purchased $9 million in fossil fuels and $363 million in nonfuel materials and services from Tennessee vendors.

March 2012